By AFPWhen healthcare workers in central Mali travel to vaccinate children against measles, they have to negotiate with the jihadists who control some...

By AFPThey see themselves as the "bold generation" and the "conscious youth" of the African continent.AFP met six African students from Generation Z w...

By AFPEight civilians including three children were killed on Thursday when unexploded munitions ignited at a house in northwestern Syria, a war monit...

By AFP/Michael Sarpong MfumGhanaian authorities and local organisations are upping their efforts to combat the poaching of pangolins, an endangered ma...

By AFP/Parvaiz BUKHARIFarmers in Indian-administered Kashmir say a major government infrastructure drive is taking their deeply cherished land, fearin...

By AFP/Tomohiro OSAKIAs peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan's temple-dotted Nara Park, a quiet but dedicated team of litter-pickers patrols...

By AFPElon Musk's artificial intelligence company unveiled on Monday the latest version of its chatbot, Grok 3, which the billionaire hopes will find...

By AFPA failing Australian metals plant will be transformed into a hub for making "green iron and steel", Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursda...

By AFPAI chipmaker Nvidia and research partners have created what they call the largest artificial intelligence system yet for biological research, th...

By AFP/Stuart WilliamsIran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights grou...

By AFPIndonesia's planned expansion of "captive" coal plants used to power industry is threatening its pledge to cut CO2 emissions by 2030 and close a...

By AFPTech giant Microsoft unveiled a new computer chip on Wednesday that it says could transform everything from fighting pollution to developing new...

By AFPTajikistan said Wednesday it would publish a new book updating the country's dress "guidelines" for women, tightening the secular state's polici...

By UN NewsLanguage is one of the distinctive features that makes us human, and a new book supported by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Org...

By AFPTwo days of fighting between Sudanese rivals have forced an estimated 10,000 families to flee a famine-hit displacement camp in the Darfur regio...

By AFPA total of 93 bodies have now been recovered from two mass graves found in Libya during raids on human trafficking networks, the United Nations...

By UN NewsThe UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, condemned efforts by Israeli officials on Tuesday to shut down an UNRWA-run training centre in...

By AFP/Alexandria SAGENobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz argued at a global conference last Thursday that nations should counter the policies of...

By AFP/Ella IDEManagers of a chemical plant accused of knowingly contaminating the water of hundreds of thousands of people are on trial in Italy, in...

By AFP/Clara WRIGHTThe French judiciary is investigating the 2012 deaths of reporters in Syria as a possible crime against humanity, anti-terror prose...

By AFPSyria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing jo...

By AFP/Sara HUSSEINTwice a day, sirens sound at Cambodia's Chip Mong Insee cement kiln, warning limestone will soon be blasted from the karst mountain...

By AFPMalian director Souleymane Cisse, one of the fathers of African cinema, died Wednesday in a Bamako clinic aged 84, his daughter told AFP.Tribute...

By AFP/Nina LARSONThe World Trade Organization chief called Wednesday for reforms to be sped up, as US President Donald Trump tramples on the body's f...